IC 496

IC 496

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
358 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 358 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 496 as it looked roughly 358 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
IC 2230Lenticular4.0 million ly
apart
IC 2254Lenticular16 million ly
apart
IC 501Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 482Spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 486Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 484Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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